A record-breaking 850 hospital leaders, employees, trustees and volunteers, including personnel from Stoughton Hospital, participated in Wisconsin Hospital Association’s Advocacy Day event in Madison on April 23.

Advocacy Day is an annual event that connects hospital supporters with their legislators in Madison so lawmakers can learn how issues impact local hospitals and communities.

Stoughton Hospital President Terry Brenny said Advocacy Day event is an important event to healthcare providers and patients.

"We believe it is important to talk with our legislators about important healthcare issues, like Medicaid provisions pending the state budget," Brenny said. "Advocacy Day provides us with the education and motivation to make our voices heard."

Survivor: '[I was] clinically dead, and I was that way for 20 minutes'   

Sudden cardiac arrest kills 1,000 people a day in the U.S., which is roughly one person every two minutes.  Would you know what to do if you saw someone collapse in front of you?

Channel3000.com and WISC-TV are proud to partner with St. Mary’s Hospital on Saturday for Hands on Hearts -- a community-wide event offering free compression-only CPR .

COCPR is a hands-only technique to help those in sudden cardiac arrest. The constant compressions are performed 100 times a minute to the center of a patient's chest. The compressions keep oxygen-rich blood flowing to the heart and brain. Mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths are not needed.

When compression-only CPR is used on a victim of cardiac arrest, the chance of surviving increases greatly.